But you never know what you have in the attic. Her rags could be a rare example that could be conserved, preserved and displayed.
Then again, maybe not. My father bought me a fair number of auction lots of clothes at rural estate auctions. I threw many of them out immediately (especially the woolens which were usually moth-riddled). Some fell apart while I cleaned them and I threw those out. After, of course, removing any salvageable laces and buttons. The vast majority of stuff available to the average person is hardly rare.
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